I think that it's very important that whoever is in office can trust the U.S. military to provide him with advice in private so that advice is not then used by somebody to try to criticize the...

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Being like them doesn't help them. Being like them just encourages them to continue being the way they are.

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

The cost of independence has dropped.

My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. My mother does not own my eyes, though she frequently directs their focus. My mother does not own my mind, though she yields great...

When you fully focus your mind, you make others attracted to you.

Kids don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

No amount of titles, degrees, trades, designations, awards, licenses, or any other credential can substitute for basic integrity when we talk about the power to influence others.

tell the truth interestingly.

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they...

Psychology of small things rules.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.